Day in Pop Report for 10/01/2014
"What the devil looks like in person," Brown wrote with an accompanying photo of Levin. "Lol. You sad little man. You've been trying for years to destroy me. It won't work. Your efforts are flattering. "When you look back on your life when it's that time for you to depart, what can u actually say you've accomplished in life? Bringing people down and being the number one source for negativity. Life's too short homie. Find some sort of happiness. You are a grown a** man. God bless you bruh." As for the cause of Brown's wrath? Over the weekend TMZ ran a report that alleged he reacted violently to a fan who tried to kiss him with the headline "Chris Brown Shoves Woman." TMZ also obtained video footage of the event where you can see what looks like Brown shoving the woman. Of course, Brown is still legally reeling from a domestic violence incident - let alone with one of the world's biggest pop stars, Rihanna - so if the incident truly occurred the way TMZ set it up, it would not be the best of marks on his record. Read more here.
The two were on their way to Demi Lovato's concert on Saturday with their children -- Lopez's 6-year-old twins, Max and Emme, and Remini's daughter, Sofia, 10 - when the accident happened. Lopez told "Extra's" Tracey Edmonds, "Everybody's fine, thank you for asking� just a little shook up. You know you get hit from behind like that, it felt l like a boulder fell on top of the car." J.Lo posted on Instagram after the accident, "Thank god everyone ok!!! #GRATEFUL #THANKYOUGOD #DontdrinkandDrive!!!! #cursedthatfoolout #theBronxcameout #dontmesswithmycocnuts #mamabear #leahstayedcalm #thatwasweird." Jennifer explained her instincts came out. "I was super scared that something that happened to the kids� They say in situations like that you fight, flight, freeze. I didn't freeze, I fought, and I didn't leave, I fought� I was like, 'They were kids in the car! There were three kids in the car, what's wrong with you?'" Lopez saying daughter Emme was crying, but once she saw what the situation was she was just grateful everybody was okay. Remini told "Extra's" Charissa Thompson that she had a little bit of a sore neck after the accident but is otherwise okay. Leah set the record straight about the selfie she and J.Lo posted, making it clear it was taken before the incident. Read what she had to say here.
In an interview with Pride Source, Lennox weighed in on her own history as a feminist activist and what she thinks of Beyonc�'s take on the movement. The conversation then turned to Beyonc� and her declaration on the MTV VMAs as a feminist. "I would call that 'feminist lite.' L-I-T-E. I'm sorry," Lennox said. "It's tokenistic to me. I mean, I think she's a phenomenal artist - I just love her performances - but I'd like to sit down (with her). I think I'd like to sit down with quite a few artists and talk to them. I'd like to listen to them; I'd like to hear what they truly think." Lennox characterizes Beyonc�'s combination of sexuality, or selling sex, with the word feminism as a "cheap shot" and says "I have issues with it." Read more here.
On Monday night's (Sept. 29) of The Daily Show, he addressed the event, by lumping in a couple of references within a segment on the U.N. summit for climate change. "I had to log off my own Instagram," Stewart quipped, adding, "They're vicious!" Then, because it is The Daily Show and their team of writers are put the pieces together and came up with a plan for combating climate change: mobilizing the One Direction Fans. "Harry is floating away on an ice cap," Stewart joked. Watch the whole clip here.
The song begins with an exhortative sample of a speech by T.D. Jakes, a televangelist bishop: "I got some chatter, but I'm still on fire. I got some threats, but I'm still on fire." Now he's got a lawyer, too. According to a post on Jakes' Facebook page, "The 'Holy Ghost' remix by Jeezy featuring Kendrick Lamar was produced without the knowledge or consent of T.D. Jakes." Read more here.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Trindl (who was given the nickname "Rain Man" by a fellow musician "because he predicted his music would bring much success, and so it did," per the suit) is seeking at least $5 million in damages for being removed from the group, as it violates an oath the trio made to "put aside any other career plans outside of music and commit to Krewella." All three members got matching "6-8-10″ tattoos to commemorate the date. "From March of 2012 until March of 2013, it was non-stop music, good times and partying for the members of Krewella, and the money started rolling in," the lawsuit states. "Kris and the Yousaf sisters were public about their drinking and partying, posting on the Internet video dispatches from the road that only served to stoke their popularity with an ever-growing worldwide fan base." Read more here.
For the uninitiated, Wunderground has made waves in the EDM community with posts poking fun at the scene such as "Electric Daisy Carnival Exposed as Giant Nursery for Babysitting Drugged Teens" and "Richie Hawtin Cancels Set After Mistakenly Forgetting to Wear a Black T-Shirt," going after mainstream culture and underground icons with equal comedic ferocity. Aoki has a been a frequent target on the site, but it was a recent post that purported to sell a t-shirt emblazoned with the slogan "Ask Me About My S- DJ Impression" on the front with a picture of Aoki's face printed on the inside of the shirt that's revealed when it's pulled over the wearer's face that pushed the "Boneless" producer and his legal team over the edge. In a lengthy and detailed post tagged "Real News," Wunderground editor Mikey Maguire mocks the cease and desist letter, maintaining that the shirts and the Indiegogo campaign to raise money in order to print them was an obvious joke. Read more here.
Like Fergie, Stefani hasn't released anything since. 2014: the year 2006 came back. Stefani has recently taken a star turn appearing as a singing coach and judge on the seventh season of The Voice, alongside Pharrell Williams. The two are apparently also working together off-screen, recording new songs for what is reportedly Stefani's next solo album at a studio in Miami. Stefani's manager Irving Azoff claims, per The Hollywood Reporter, that 44-year-old Stefani will perform the lead single from the project on The Voice at some point during the upcoming season. Read more here.
Written by Bart Allmand, Chris Tompkins and Rodney Clawson, "Bumpin' the Night" is a slower track than we've heard from the country duo. But like previously released song "Anything Goes," the guys show that Friday is often the best night of the week. And who wouldn't agree with that? "Two bottles of Buds, two speakers in the trunk, two people in love just bumpin' the night," they sing on the chorus. Listen here.
The mainly performance video shows Rucker and his band getting ready for a show at HTC Center as they hang out backstage and ready for soundcheck before the show. Additionally, the song's plot of a girl "sitting in a bar in New York City everyone here looking New York pretty," is portrayed by an attractive lady who dances around the bar and later is called up onstage during Rucker's performance. In an interview with Radio.com earlier this month, Rucker said Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley actually had the idea for the song. "I was playing golf with Charles Kelley one day," he told Radio.com. "Charles is probably my best friend in the business, we get along really well. He said, 'Man, we've been in Nashville seven years and have never written a song.' I hadn't really thought about it, but he was right. We had never written a song together. When I got to the session he had this great idea he had started with the opening line, 'Sitting in a bar in New York City everyone here looking New York pretty.'" Watch the video here.
The event this past weekend, which benefited Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, raised $335,479, which marks the event's biggest donation. Special guests included Chris Young, Randy Houser, Kip Moore and Jon Pardi. "I'm still coming down from the high of such an unbelievable last run of shows on the summer leg of this tour," Bentley said. "The fans in Cinci, Cleveland and Indianapolis were ready to close out their summer in a big way. Then we got back to Nashville, and I was totally blown away by the outpouring of support we got for this year's 'Miles & Music.'" Read more here.
Now Game has shared "Black On Black", which features two of the biggest names in the South: Jeezy and Kevin Gates. Over triumphant production by The Mekanicz, the three MCs compete to see who can rap in the raspiest voice. The results are too close to call. Although The Game is known for his fearsome posturing, he displays a softer side on this song. "14 karats in my daughter ear f**k it/She deserve every rock I'da sold out in public," he raps. "Do anything for my destiny child /She a Beyonce, never be Letoya Lucky" Listen here.
Now, Chromeo has added to the growing list of dance videos this year - which also includes Kiesza's "Hideaway" - with their visual for "Old 45's." It's only fitting that the duo, Dave 1 and P-Thugg, recruited HAIM for their dance video. Taking place in a vintage roadside bar, the plot kicks off when an attractive woman enters the bar. It starts believably enough until dancers come in and break out in a routine - and Jon Heder, who famously played Napoleon Dynamite, shows up in semi-character and says, "This place sucksss." Because it's a dance video, everyone's outfits are coordinated. Read more here.
This announcement came during an interview with former local Alaskan TV reporter, Charlo Greene, who quit her job on air by letting everyone know that as an Alaskan cannabis club owner would be taking time to help pass Proposition 2, which would legalize pot in the state for anyone over 21. Oh, and she made her resignation official by announcing, "F-k it, I quit." Truly a drop the mic moment if there ever was one. In his efforts to help Greene, Snoop announced "If we get y'all to vote yes on Proposition 2, Snoop Dogg is coming to Alaska for a concert, a wellness retreat, and I'm bringing some of that California with me," he said. here.
Verses come from Jay 305 and Tee Cee, who wax lyrical about the trials and tribulations of life in the hood. We start in the morning - "woke up, brush my teeth�tell me about the raid that happened down the street." "Ghetto Tales" is about storytelling, the way that stories and intrigue circulate through word of mouth: "This the kind of s**t that happens every day, in the hood." Watch the video here.
As Hot New Hip Hop points out, London tweeted out last week about hearing the new Ye album not once, not twice, but thrice. He also suggested that he was featured on the album, including the single. But on Tuesday, London changing his story entirely, tweeting that the Kanye West album is not even finished, while then taking a shot at music writers. Read more here.
There is, in fact, a blonde "it girl" at the center of Williams' animated attention, but the viewer is mostly treated to a large amount of screen time for animated Pharrell and his animated Vivienne Westwood hat. Like, to the extent that he features in the center of a revised Mount Rushmore, along side the animators of the clip. So who's the real "it girl" here, Pharrell? Watch it here.
But before the cameras began rolling on our interview, we chatted about everything from Marvel Comics (he had been at their offices before coming to Radio.com) to dogs (he had recently appeared with Cesar Millan on an episode of "Cesar 911″). Possibly more than any of his peers, Aoki (who, oh yeah, also owns a bunch of restaurants and fashion line) has infused more aspects of the mainstream, and is becoming not just the most recognizable DJ, but one of the most recognizable pop stars. Which might be an alarming thought to him: a former punk rocker who self-identified as an outcast. In speaking with him, it's easy to see how he's gone from sleeping in a van to traveling by private jet. He's a fun guy to be around, and his enthusiasm for whatever is on his mind is pretty infectious. Radio.com: Earlier this year, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary announced "dubstep" was officially being added to the English language. Congratulations! What did you make of that? Steve Aoki: Wow! They announce these things? What else was added? "Selfie." Wow. It's always exciting to see when popular culture accepts something from the underground. And dub step has always been an underground artform, so it's kind of cool that it's been accepted. So tell me about your new album: why did you decide to name it Neon Future? Neon Future is basically the sum of all its parts. I started writing this album when I started reading up on futurist ideas and the fusion of technologies, artificial intelligence, stem cell research, nd even far off ideas like singularity, where AI and humanity meet, so we can extend our lives indefinitely. I have a Neon Future interview series, where I'm interviewing scientists, and I've expanded it to include other interesting people. So far, I've interviewed Ray Kurzweil, the man behind Singularity, Aubrey de Grey, who wrote a book called Ending Aging, Arianna Huffington, to talk about the future of media, Mickey Hart, the drummer from the Grateful Dead, who was working with a neuroscienteist and we went to the lab and tried on Oculus Rift and talked about rhythm's effect on the brain. Stan Lee is also on my list. You've also spent some time with Fall Out Boy; you collaborated with them on "Back to Earth" from the new album. It was a pretty natural process, I've known Pete Wentz for years. And I'm a fan. It started out with me and Pete and Patrick [Stump] working in my studio doing vocals, and then the whole band came in. So you hear the whole band, not just Patrick. It's a proper band/electronic collaboration. It's one of my favorite records I've ever done. Read the rest of the interview here.
"We unanimously knew that our album title had to be 747," Lady A vocalist Hillary Scott said in a press statement when the album was announced. "The track itself has this pushing, driving spirit about it that sums up our attitude right now. We are pushing ourselves as a band and as songwriters�taking ourselves out of our comfort zone and not taking ourselves too seriously. There's an urgency and an energy to it that we've never released before." Fans got a real taste of that "urgency" and new level of "energy" in the album's lead single "Bartender," which recently became the band's ninth No. 1. "Bartender" was written by the three bandmates along with veteran Nashville songwriter Rodney Clawson. Lyrically it's about drinking in the wake of a romantic split - familiar territory for Lady A, yet the song's attitude and spirit are vastly different than the group's best-known breakup song, "Need You Now." As Scott told Radio.com, in "Bartender," the female protagonist is "not going to drown in her tears. She's going to go have fun with her friends, experience life, and make a new memory. And I love that." The song marked a new creative direction for the band, one with a decidedly more uptempo beat. And that move was deliberate. "If we're trying to be a successful touring act for years to come we need to have these high-energy moments throughout our show�and coming out of the radio," Scott explained. Read more here.
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